That will teach me to fall asleep before the end of the game.

Does anyone know why NLB doesn't allow a review on a call of hitting a ball off your foot? It's a factual call. It either hit you and is a dead ball or it didn't. It makes no sense to not review that.

Hang it in the Louvre

I don't understand how Machado shows the home plate ump twice in one AB then turns around and tosses Altuve.

Anyway, Winner. Winner.

Hader said the explanation they gave him on the step off was that they didn't know if a new pitcher coming in could step off…

So according to this crew Profar could have just walked down to home plate cause he's not allowed to be thrown at haha

What a ridiculous thing for a full MLB umpiring crew to not know the answer to, and what a joke the "rules" people were for not responding in 20 seconds "oh there's a runner on base? Keep playing ****ing baseball!"

Between the zone, the not knowing the rules, not asking for help from fellow umpires and the rules office and replay being idiots, that was probably the worst overall ran baseball game by a crew and MLB I've ever seen

Ags #1 said:

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Looking for clip of Jose going off on umps if anyone has it

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This will likely go down as my biggest contribution to the thread since accurately predicting the scores of 3 playoff games during the 2022 title run.

gambochaman said:

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The cosmic karma of the 9th and 10th

Umps try screw us with the altuve fair ball and ejection, which brings kess into the game
Umps try to screw us again by calling a phantom hit by pitch to put another runner on base


That phantom runner is the final force out at second by kess….altuve is good, but not sure he makes that play


Suck it beetches

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Altuve is 5-5 (that's being generous)...Grae is 6-1 so he has MUCH more reach than Jose so I think you can safely assume Altuve does not make that play and we lose the game. Obviously positioning and reflexes are other variables but I'd like to think the sh*tty umpiring backfired on them.

Mathguy64 said:

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Does anyone know why NLB doesn't allow a review on a call of hitting a ball off your foot? It's a factual call. It either hit you and is a dead ball or it didn't. It makes no sense to not review that.

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Who knows but I'd rather NLB take over because MLB SUCKS at it.

I'd love to see clips of the Padres broadcast and hear what their reactions were.

And I loved Hader's reaction sitting next to JV. Never flinches or says anything. Just slowly shakes his head in disappointment and disbelief.

Just a shame how an absolute fantastic game is overshadowed by the incompetency of the umpire crew.

Final: Astros 4, Padres 3
Umpire: Brennan Miller#Relentless // #LetsGoPadres#HOUvsSD // #SDvsHOU
Missed Balls: https://t.co/aY5PVLki7v
Missed Strikes: https://t.co/n1qDHXjev4
Video may not be available immediately after the game pic.twitter.com/HUNpeOSf9w

— BallsAndStrikes (@umpstrikezone) September 18, 2024

Good morning to everyone but San Diego, #LetsGoPadres fans & the worst umpiring crew I’ve ever witnessed butcher a game in September. These guys actually got paid to sabotage the strike zone & the rule book more than a Diddy Freak Off party and Houston still won. #Relentless 🤘🏼🔥 pic.twitter.com/cwZh0pGVaK

— Adam Clanton (@adamclanton) September 18, 2024

Hunter Brown just stole Luis Arráez's Soul. 👻 pic.twitter.com/3bOrOznuZ1

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 18, 2024

Looking ahead to tonight, SSS but Altuve is 5-10 with 2 bombs against Cease, Bregman 3-9, Tucker 4-10. Yordan is only 2-13.

Another overlooked AB from last night was Pressly vs Machado

That was a great battle with Pressly making some absolutely great pitches. During the AB you can see Manny kinda nodding his head smirking after he whiffed on some nasty pitches. Then when he K'd he tipped his hat walking out of the box as to say 'Alright...You got me. Well done'.

Just a great battle then game recognizing game.

I like this Padres team and these have been really good playoff vibe games. I'd hate to face these guys in the playoffs. After last night and with the pitching matchup on deck today should be a another great game.

Ag_07 said:

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I'd love to see clips of the Padres broadcast and hear what their reactions were.

And I loved Hader's reaction sitting next to JV. Never flinches or says anything. Just slowly shakes his head in disappointment and disbelief.

Just a shame how an absolute fantastic game is overshadowed by the incompetency of the umpire crew.

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Unions. When being trash is protected

EastCoastAgNc said:

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Good morning to everyone but San Diego, #LetsGoPadres fans & the worst umpiring crew I’ve ever witnessed butcher a game in September. These guys actually got paid to sabotage the strike zone & the rule book more than a Diddy Freak Off party and Houston still won. #Relentless 🤘🏼🔥 pic.twitter.com/cwZh0pGVaK

— Adam Clanton (@adamclanton) September 18, 2024

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FANTASTIC!!!!

The Astros uniformed personnel are tired of it as well. Players and/or coaches confronted the umpires after the game last night. Can’t get ejected if the game is over, I guess. pic.twitter.com/s3GWSzrY1P

— The Astros Locker (@TheAstrosLocker) September 18, 2024

You just know that asshat Brandon Miller is going to be on one of our playoff games.

Every year I watch a lot of Aggie baseball, and then transition to the Astros when the college season is over.

And then every year I'm amazed at how many plays like Kessinger's you can see in any MLB game. To me that's the biggest difference in college and pro baseball. That was a great play but really the game situation, and his, made it more special.

Now I do see a lot of very poorly umpired games at the college level. In general MLB umpires are better. But the umps in the last two games were remarkably bad even for NCAA standards.

Really bad bull to eject Altuve. That wasn't a judgement call and Jose was the only person in the stadium to know with 100% life and death certainty that the ball hit his foot. And his many years of good natured demeanor should have brought him some amount of latitude. The baseball gods can be a pretty fickle bunch but to have Kessinger in the game to make the final out, they were saying even they had had enough of these umps.

Ags #1 said:

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Looking for clip of Jose going off on umps if anyone has it

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Shoeless Jose?

I fully expect a Jose Altuve shoeless bobble foot give away next season.

Well, today's game will be interesting. Haha.

I like the personality of the team, man. I don't know if it's Joe has put more on Altuve this year or if it's just that the have been in grind mode all season, but that interaction after game by some of the guys on the team I would think is for Altuve. You can just tell Altuve is different this year. Feels like he wants it bad this year, and I think it's rubbing off on them.

I wonder who it was that confronted the umpires. Will also be interested what MLB says. Not often a team and the umps get that heated after the game.

They should have media availability for umpires.

Was thinking about it last night: obviously the team would rather have not gone through April/May, but it may have been the best thing for them. They saw it could be taken away and it feels like they are playing with a willingness to grind.

This season is also damn good for the young guys. It will pay dividends for Blanco, Yanier, Hunter, Spencer, and Jeremy.

I do appreciate the effort the team has shown the past couple of months. We basically took over the division lead without MVP-caliber Tucker. Starting pitching has been very solid despite some shaky starts sprinkled in. Bringing Neris back has been huge. My only issue, and I feel like it will really hurt in the playoffs, is we didn't add any offense whatsoever before the trade deadline. Not even a RH bat to platoon with Singleton at 1B.

McInnis said:

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Really bad bull to eject Altuve. That wasn't a judgement call and Jose was the only person in the stadium to know with 100% life and death certainty that the ball hit his foot. And his many years of good natured demeanor should have brought him some amount of latitude. The baseball gods can be a pretty fickle bunch but to have Kessinger in the game to make the final out, they were saying even they had had enough of these umps.

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I don't know how you would ever have a scenario where any player takes off a shoe and sock like that and he doesn't get ejected. It's 100% done to show up the umpire. He might have deserved it, but you're going to get run no matter what. It's like a player drawing a line in the dirt to show where the pitch was. Automatic ejection every time. I doubt Jose had any illusions about whether that was his last appearance in that game when he took his shoe off.